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2015-11-30 New articles we read this week

Imaging Ariotti N, Hall TE, Rae J, Ferguson C, McMahon KA, Martel N, Webb RE, Webb RI, Teasdale RD, Parton RG. Modular Detection of GFP-Labeled Proteins for Rapid Screening by Electron Microscopy in Cells and Organisms. Dev Cell. 2015 Nov 11. pii: S1534-5807(15)00681-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.10.016. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26585296. Genomics Bhaduri A, […]

2015-11-23 New articles we read … for a while

Genome editing Knight SC, Xie L, Deng W, Guglielmi B, Witkowsky LB, Bosanac L, Zhang ET, El Beheiry M, Masson JB, Dahan M, Liu Z, Doudna JA, Tjian R. Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 genome interrogation in living cells. Science. 2015 Nov 13;350(6262):823-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac6572. PubMed PMID: 26564855. Kiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari […]

2015-07-12 Articles we read this week

Population Genetics Balaresque P, Poulet N, Cussat-Blanc S, Gerard P, Quintana-Murci L, Heyer E, Jobling MA. Y-chromosome descent clusters and male differential reproductive success: young lineage expansions dominate Asian pastoral nomadic populations. Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Jan 14. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.285. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25585703. Nature News: Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy has […]

2014-07-20 new articles we read this week

Nature’s special on “Challenges in irreproducible research” Human Behaviour/Psychology Kramer AD, Guillory JE, Hancock JT. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jun 17;111(24):8788-90. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1320040111. Epub 2014 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 24889601. This is THE controversial experiment by facebook. News coverage: Facebook emotion study […]

2014-03-23 New articles we read this week

Genomics Venter’s New Goal: World’s Largest Sequencing Operation Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time? Genetics Vanderperre B, Lucier JF, Bissonnette C, Motard J, Tremblay G, Vanderperre S, Wisztorski M, Salzet M, Boisvert FM, Roucou X. Direct detection of alternative open reading frames translation products in human significantly expands the proteome. PLoS […]

2012-02-26 New articles we read this week

Genome editing Kim JM, Kim D, Kim S, Kim JS. Genotyping with CRISPR-Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases. Nat Commun. 2014 Jan 20;5:3157. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4157. PubMed PMID: 24445736. Bae S, Park J, Kim JS. Cas-OFFinder: A fast and versatile algorithm that searches for potential off-target sites of Cas9 RNA-guided endonucleases. Bioinformatics. 2014 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print] […]

2013-12-28 New articles we read this week

Neuroscience Widmann A, Schröger E. Filter effects and filter artifacts in the analysis of  electrophysiological data. Front Psychol. 2012 Jul 9;3:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00233. eCollection 2012. PubMed PMID: 22787453; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3391960. Hsiao EY, McBride SW, Hsien S, Sharon G, Hyde ER, McCue T, Codelli JA, Chow J, Reisman SE, Petrosino JF, Patterson PH, Mazmanian SK. Microbiota modulate behavioral […]

2013-10-12 New articles we read this week

Genetics/Genomics Mali P, Esvelt KM, Church GM. Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology. Nat Methods. 2013 Sep 27;10(10):957-63. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2649. PubMed  PMID: 24076990. Esvelt KM, Mali P, Braff JL, Moosburner M, Yaung SJ, Church GM. Orthogonal Cas9 proteins for RNA-guided gene regulation and editing. Nat Methods. 2013 Sep 29. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2681. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed […]

2012-09-03 new articles we read this week

Stem cells Nakano T, Ando S, Takata N, Kawada M, Muguruma K, Sekiguchi K, Saito K, Yonemura S, Eiraku M, Sasai Y. Self-formation of optic cups and storable stratified neural retina from human ESCs. Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Jun 14;10(6):771-85. PubMed PMID: 22704518. Cyranoski D. Tissue engineering: The brainmaker. Nature. 2012 Aug 23;488(7412):444-6. doi: 10.1038/488444a. […]

The associate editor of Genomics resigns because of the difficulties in accessing the articles by scientists from developing countries

Dr. Winston Hide decides to resigns from his associate editor position of Genomics because of the expensive subscription rate of the journal precludes many in accessing important articles that are important for public health. From The Guardian: Today I resigned from the editorial board of a well respected journal in my field – Genomics. No […]